Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-27
NEWS NOTES.

In Jersey City a party of Germans were
shooting at q mark in a cellar. One OF tho
bullets went through window and hit an
Irish lad named Murphy, causing a. danger
Gus wound. Siegfried Schn older, who saw
the boy fall, rushed to his assistance, and
was at once taken by mob OF irlshmen,
who, supposing him to be the reckless shoot
or, threw q rope around his neck and were
about to hang him when the police rescued
him. Schneider had not been with the
marksmen, and his thrilling adventure fairly
illustrates the manner in which mobs deal
out Justice. Probably as many innocent per
SONS as guilty ones are lynched.
q. B. Weeks, of Ottawa, illinois, who was
q passenger on the train wrecked at Chats
worth last Wednesday night, writes to the
Chicago Times, that the train was running at
speed of ffty-five or sixty miles an hour
when the disaster occurred. The railroad
officials claim that the train was not going
faster than thirty or thirty-fve miles an
hour. No announcement has yet been made
of the policy the railway company will pur-
sue in the adjustment of claims for damages
by the wounded and the relatives of the dead
victims. An enterprising firm of hicago
solicitors is sending out circulars asking that
claims against the company be placed In its
hands for collection. he list of fatalities
plete, numbers u names. No arrests have
been made for the burning of the culvert.
General Crook does not believe that
Colorow, the Ute chief, has more than twenty
followers in his present raid. The troops at
Fort Duchesne, his nearest point to tn e
scene of the reported uprising, are being
held In readiness to move at moments
notice.
The Secretary of the navy has awarded
the contracts of the five new vessels author
lied by the last congress, as follows: Cruiser |
To ~ fnr
No. Alto the same firm for 81 $50, GOO; cruiser |
No. 5 to the Union works of San Francisco |
for 81, 428, 600; gunboats Nos and to N. |
f. Palmer, Jr., & Co., of New York, Roach's
assignees, for $49O, 600 each.
The engineers strike on the Mexican Cen
trail railroad is interfering seriously with the
operation of the line. Fifty engineers, with |
their fremen, have left their locomotives.
There is considerable excitement in the |
northwest over the new schedule announced |
by the Manitoba road, which puts Duluth |
and Minneapolis on the same footing as re-
CARDS the wheat tariff.
Gaudaur has challenged Teemer to a race
for the American championship and s., COO
a side, to be rowed between September 7th |
and oath.
Tie British government has contracted to
pay the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship |
COupdlly SOpOO duuudlly w Utu fcSSclS
ready for use as armed cruisers.
The arrest of Charles Parker, who rob- ,
bed Paymaster Bash, q. S. A.. Of So, 600 at |
Antelope Springs, Wyoming, several months
ago, was attended by some very sensational
features. Parker resisted desperately, and |
was only overcome after bitter struggle. |
He is now in Jail at North Platte, Nebraska.
Paymaster Bash has been suspended from
the services until the amount stolen by
Parker is made good to the government.
Hanlan, the Canadian oarsman, has start
ed for Australia, where he is matched for
race with Beach.
On September %, 1862; Prince Bismarck
became the foreign minister of Prussia, and
on the Sth of October following, assumed
the premiership. Preparations are making
for the celebration of the twenty fifth ami
versaries of these events. The Prussian
government has ordered a colossal bust of
the chancellor in marble as memorial of
the occasion.
The fall of an elevator in factory on
Mercer street, New York, killed one person,
fatally injured another, and caused more or
less serious injuries to dozen others.
The report that Albert Meter, the Cincin-
natl capitalist was in collision with Napo-
leon Ives in the latter's Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton, and Dayton transactions, is Indignantly
denied oy Mr.. Meter. Ives Cincinnati cred
itors are said to be exasperated at the turn
affairs have taken, and it is limited that an
Indictment may be returned in Ohio against
the young NAPOLEON